Dialer/shared: in-flight features and upcoming changes that could impact RTL work?

[Sam Foster]

Hello Dialer people,

We're about to start the work on updating and completing the RTL support for 2.5. This will involve some refactoring(1) of the existing CSS in the dialer app - and implicated shared stylesheets. To minimize collisions and redundant work it would help to be aware of any in-flight features and major upcoming refactoring or other changes that might be relevant.

If you are working on shared or dialer UI that is surfaced to the user, could you reply on this thread with brief details and/or bug numbers?

1. "Refactoring" meaning something along the lines of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188069

Thanks,
/Sam

[Douglas Sherk]

Hi Sam,

I'm glad that you reached out about this. Within the Dialer team, we're mostly focused on fixing blockers. There are no major CSS refactors incoming that I'm aware of. Gabriele (cc'd) might think of one, but I doubt it.

I'd also like to note that I think we should do more of this sort of thing on dev-gaia for big features and refactors. Coordination saves lots of headaches.

Doug

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[Gabriele Svelto]

Hi Sam,

On 03/09/2015 03:51, Douglas Sherk wrote:
> I'm glad that you reached out about this. Within the Dialer team, we're
> mostly focused on fixing blockers. There are no major CSS refactors
> incoming that I'm aware of. Gabriele (cc'd) might think of one, but I
> doubt it.

we don't have any CSS/layout refactors undergoing nor planned. The
dialer would actually *need* some refactors (especially the callscreen)
but we don't have the manpower to do them right now.

BTW please keep us in the loop especially for the callscreen changes as
they're usually quite hard to test. I can walk you through using the
emulator to test the callscreen's most bizarre corner cases without
needing three phones and a bunch of simcards.

Gabriele

[Zibi Braniecki]

The only area of intermingling with L10n I can see here is that we're working on adopting Intl API (and designing the next revision of Intl[1]) and we'd love you to use Intl.NumberFormat for all the work related to numbers.

I'll try to land IntlHelper as well[2] soon as this will help to work with cached formatters.

zb.


[1] Things like units, relative time, relative dates, lists etc.
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191011